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There are many other ways to spend $1,500 -- some useful, some off-the-wall

While it's an exciting, innovative piece of technology, Google Glass isn't really something that most of us would get much out of as yet. (Unless you're a ubiquitous tech blogger like Robert Scoble or something.) It's just not ready for general use, but that didn't stop Google from revving up the hype engine and offering an open, one-day sale on April 15 -- at the usual price of $1,500. Here are a few suggestions for what you might spend that money on instead.

Dell's Alienware 17 laptop can handle almost anything you throw at it, for slightly less than the price of Glass. Even if you're not a gamer, $1,500 will get you the laptop of your dreams. (Unless your dreams include higher-end MacBook Pros, of course.)

With the slightly more expensive storage option, the iPhone 5S retails directly from Apple for $750. So you can give someone a fairly awesome birthday/Easter/whatever gift, while treating yourself into the bargain.

Obviously, supercar maker Aston Martin is one of the first places I turn to when looking for the hottest new Android smartphones. Actually, given how underpowered and overpriced it is, Google Glass may actually be a better choice.

For $1,500, you could enjoy well over 15 years' worth of Hulu Plus or Netflix, 15 years of Amazon Prime, or 15 years of Spotify Premium. A la carte, that's 500 episodes of your favorite TV shows on iTunes in HD, and more than 200 premium Amazon Instant Video movie rentals. Are you not entertained?

At $350 a pop, you could buy four second-generation Oculus Rift development kits from recent Facebook acquisition Oculus VR. I mean, if you're into cool headware, what's not to like about a VR headset that lets you really inhabit your favorite PC games?

Hilariously, $1,500 would buy you less than three shares each of Google or Apple, less than five shares of Amazon, about 25 shares of Facebook, 45 shares of HP or Yahoo, 38 shares of Microsoft, or 68 shares of Cisco. (Rough figures based on stock prices around noon on Monday, April 14.)

With the obvious caveat that prices may change dramatically even as you read this sentence, $1,500 currently buys you about 3BTC, about 133 litecoin, 750 peercoin, or 3.37 million dogecoin. So crypto. Very satoshi.